An English Reading Comprehension Activity. This resource gives the learner an overview of Pride month and the Stonewall riots. They will then be asked to answer 10 skimming and scanning questions based on the document. Answers are provided so that learners can self mark.

An English Reading Comprehension Skimming & Scanning Activity. This would be ideal for E3 Functional Skills learners and pupils in the KS3 & KS4 age groups. The learner will read part of Twilight’s Chapter 1. They will then answer 10 questions based on this extract. There is an extension task and the learner is asked to identify any adjectives in a piece of text. Answers are provided so that learners can self mark.

24X fruit and veg flash cards. Can be used with ESOL learners, primary aged school children and Functional Skills learners E1 - E3. Get your learners to put the cards in alphabetical order by identifying both the first letter and second letter. These can be used for other activities. Prints double sided. A4 PDF document.

An English Article Writing Activity. This task gives the learner the following scenario: Your country’s football team have won the UEFA European Championship! To celebrate, you are planning to host a FREE entry party in the gardens of your local church. Ideas are given to what the learner may want to writing in the article, space is provided for planning and an article planning grid and writing paper are attached.

An A3 worksheet that learners can fill in as they read through the novel.

Fun quiz with answers: Can you name the Roald Dahl books by looking at the illustrations on their front covers?

An English booklet for KS3 age groups. Contains a dictionary skills. skimming and scanning and research task.

This activity is based on the Roald Dahl book: The Witches. It focuses on the chapter: How to Recognize Witches. The first activity is to get learners to use their skimming and scanning skills and to extract information from the book. The second activity is an article writing task. Great for KS2 & KS3.

15X Poetry Anthology Flashcards. Double-sided. Printed double-sided on A4 paper. 4 cards per sheet. Each card, on the reverse, has a number of key quotes from each poem. These can be cut-out and laminated to be used as flashcards for revision. I have also attached 15x blank cards so you can get your students to locate and write down their own key quotes. In order to print correctly, print ‘double sided’ whilst also choosing the ‘flip on short edge’ option.

A great lesson starter to get your students to remember character’s names and themes from the play. Instructions: Cut out the images on the grid sheet and place them inside of a container. Give each player a bingo card. As you draw an image from the container, ask the players to cross them out on their grid sheet. The first player who gets 3 in a row, wins the first round! Continue playing the game until someone gets a full house!

This is a twenty-two page PowerPoint that is designed to be used with learners who are due to complete their English Functional Skills writing examination. It is designed for L1 and L2 learners and is entitled: Review Writing The PowerPoint is a step-by-step guide of how to format and write different types of reviews. At the end of the presentation, there are two review writing tasks for learners to attempt. For one of the review writing tasks, I have given on-screen ‘tips’ on how to plan the content of the review and how to ‘expand’ a draft version of the text, in order to raise the learners word count and to also make it more engaging for the reader. The PowerPoints contents include: How to write a review How to format a review What to include in a review Sample assessment questions How to plan your review’s content and how to ‘expand’ your writing There is also a booklet attached which includes a review template and contains the two writing tasks that can be also viewed in the PowerPoint.

An A3 revision PDF poster that will help learners to remember how to format different types of texts. Letter writing Email Writing Article & Review Writing Report Writing

Letter Writing booklet. The learner has three letter writing tasks to complete. This booklet would suit L1 and L2 learners

A worksheet which will to help learners to identify different language features. This worksheet uses some quotes from Muhammad Ali’s most well-known speeches. Learner’s are asked to identify the language techniques used in each quote.

A fun English game designed for my KS3 class to help them with their creative writing. The board contains a series of 5 prompts which will allow the learner to build their short Science Fiction story: setting, main character, main character trait, main theme and conflict. Give the student a dice piece. They will roll the dice piece 5 times moving from left to right of the board. For example: The first number refers to the setting, the second number rolled refers to the story’s main character…etc… The learner will then write a short story based on what they rolled on the prompt board.

An English Reading Comprehension Skimming & Scanning Activity. A starter activity / worksheet. This would be ideal for E2 - E3 Functional Skills learners and low ability pupils in the KS3 & KS4 age groups. Based on Barack Obama, learners will the short source document before answering six skimming and scanning questions. Answers are provided so learners can self mark.

This is a worksheet that is designed to be used alongside the play DNA. The learner will pick one of the characters from the play and create a Facebook profile for that character. They will fill in all of the information that they know about them from the play and add other additional information of their own. They will also write a status that sums up what that character is feeling at the end of each act in the play. A fun character analysis activity.

This is a 13 page PPT on how to write an article. The PPT includes: What is an article? What do I include in an article? Step-by-Step article format and content slides Examples throughout PPT Layout of an article 3 practice question tasks